Saturday, September 29, 2012

Weekend Roundup

There are enough scholars who have serious doubts about the authenticity of the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” that when a report circulated that Harvard Theological Review had decided to not publish the article, many scholars believed it. Brian LePort has some of the back and forth.

Mark Hoffman excavated at et-Tell (Bethsaida?) this summer and is sharing his photo book of the dig. (No account is needed to flip through it, and full screen provides the best view.)

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For the record, when I saw the front/back photos of the "My Wife" papyrus, my gut reaction was that the writing was a modern forgery. The ink's clarity & letter positioning doesn't match the papyrus' wear. I'm not an expert in Coptic or papyri, but own a non-Biblical fragment, & have seen hundreds of others in a private collection plus published ones in books of course. I'm ambivalent towards its authenticity though, since it would not impact my Christian faith in any regard.